Girondins

The Girondins were a moderate faction of the Jacobin Club, existing from 1791 to 1793. Girondin leader Jacques Pierre Brissot supported the French Revolutionary Wars from 1792 to 1793, and famous philosopher Thomas Paine supported the Girondin faction of the Jacobins, as did Jean-Marie Roland, Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, and the Marquis de Condorcet. The faction would fall out with The Mountain faction of the Jacobins due to their support for a constitutional monarchy instead of democracy, leading to its liquidation during the Reign of Terror.